Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film
Heterosexual masculinity through psychoanalysis and queer theory
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Heterosexual masculinity through psychoanalysis and queer theory
C. Thomas examines how heterosexual masculine identity becomes unstable when it is represented in culture. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory, the essays consider processes of queering and abjection as they appear across literature, theoretical writing, and film. The book places straight masculinity within the same critical frameworks often used to question normative sexual identities, treating it not as a fixed category but as one shaped by cultural representation and exclusion.
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- Students and scholars of literary, film, and cultural criticism
- Readers interested in queer theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis
- Those studying masculinity and heterosexual identity in cultural texts
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